The most Badass Editing Workstations EVER?!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,827 words · ~9 min read
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can that be right has it really been almost 3 years since we filmed whole
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room water cooling where we upgraded all our editing
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workstations that means we've been using the same base editing workstations for
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almost 3 years I mean they've served us well six Core Extreme editions 32 gigs
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of RAM Titan graphics cards all that good stuff but come on baby it's
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2017 it's time for an upgrade so we're
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going to be moving to the latest 10 Core Extreme editions and perhaps even more
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importantly RGB and to help me I have
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enlisted a very special guest my favorite Soviet Canadian Ivan who is
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going to be helping me perform these upgrades in place with the goal being to
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hot swap everybody's editing workstations so we lose almost no
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productivity will it work probably not
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so if we miss any uploads you'll know what happened but darn it we're going to
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do our best let's go
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so this is the part where he finds out why he was brought in today it's a
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buildoff do you have a screwdriver what is that it's a custom made one of course
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it is why did I even ask wow it's really smooth mhm looks
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like it has all kinds of uses mhm I'm sorry I touched
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it all right you only get half of the table don't touch my
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side don't yell at me don't don't touch my side don't yell at me we're not in
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the relationship so in terms of motherboard the choice was actually
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pretty straightforward we were looking for something based on ASUS's x99
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platform eight sticks of RAM support we needed lots of PCI Express slots and we
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wanted Rock Solid stability so that's
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why we went with this board versus the more advanced one oh right and it has an
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RGB header the most important feature in
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terms of processor well as you probably noticed this video was brought to you by
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Intel so if you get to choose whatever
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processor you want in Intel's lineup come on you go with the
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6950x so not only are we getting faster individual cores compared to our
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existing 4960 XS we are actually getting
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four more processing cores so that means
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more multitasking that means better performance as we've measured before in
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the past so if you wanted you could actually check out a video that we did a
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little while ago on um the best possible
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hardware setup for video encoding we get more performance there and we get better
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multitasking chill out man I'm the one who should be russing okay yeah you
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never worked in the office back with
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us you never wanted to oh what did I
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hit okay so what I could do is figure
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out the orientation myself but thanks to the side by-side format of this
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buildoff and the respect that I have for
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my competitor I'm just going to jump right in and do it the same way he did
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it see he congratulates me for cheating
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isn't he wonderful hey what's all this stuff in
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my pocket I know where lives oh RGB oh oh Advantage Linus
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because he didn't spell out all of the Rules of
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Engagement well you're already married get it
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gety so in terms of the power supply upgrade here we're actually going from
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750 watt 80 plus gold power supplies
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that were semi modular to Corsair's hxi 850w power
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supplies one of the big advantages here is that the fan itself actually turns
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off when it's not under a heavy load which means that these systems will be
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extremely quiet at least acoustically
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they're going to be RGB so they're going to be their own flavor of
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loud did you put in all four screws on the uh radiator or all eight rather yes
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sir oh man why you do this because you
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taught me that way Ian do not do half job ever wow
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oh oh you know what you may have made a
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mistake though your RGB fans will not be visible from the
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outside then I might have made a
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mistake since uh this is the only thing that's going to be lighting up the
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inside of the case I actually do stick with my decision because then at least
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we'll have the inside of the case lit somehow as opposed to only having it
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coming from the front fence which are kind of further to the front arbitrary
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rules are also arbit
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AR it's like you can't install the motherboard until you install the AO you
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can't install the AO until you install the fans you can't install the fans until you install the we got to create
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that fake uh like that fake cooking show tension where's the
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salt see this is what I love about modern cases that have the the middle
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kind of nubin thing going on there so you can actually
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mount a motherboard and it'll stay in
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place well enough for you put in the rest of the motherboard
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screws while you look for the motherboard screws where are my
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motherboard screws oh thank
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you a
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shoot novice mistake man I got my IO
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Shield stuck on one of my ports so I
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have to pull the board out fortunately I've only put in one screw no washer is
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on the ID either no you don't need washers on on the
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radiator warps the metal if you
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don't I oh come on it's
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fine now I have to flip my radiator orientation cuz I think my two hose will
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collide with a your friend I always run into trouble with my hose
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colliding holla that's okay we've got lots of
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clean terrible humor we don't need the dirty terrible
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humor is that a SATA cable in your pocket you're just happy to see me
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well if I was happy it wouldn't be very happy look at this thing
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yeah it's even a little weenie one like weeny like eenie weeny but also
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like a penis okay this is a trick that I
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use but never recommend where you just kind of line it up on the pins and then
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you use a screwdriver to jam it on if you slip you hit your motherboard with a
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screwdriver yeah the build off's done I
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won by 10 minutes but given that he's
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never built in the case before I'd say that's kind of within you know margin of
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error so it's going to come down to which build you guys ultimately think is
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better Ivan took a different approach to the cabling at the back a different
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approach to the cabling at the front and opted to put the fans on the inside to
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illuminate the motherboard area rather than on the outside and as for me I have
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my 24 four pin cable going up the cable management run I have my uh my drive
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cable really not looking as good back there I don't think I did as good a job
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of these cables but I've got my Thunderbolt 3 card installed so bonus
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points for that they're all supposed to have Thunderbolt 3 and 10 gig Lan and
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I've got my fans visible from the top here so that I can have like dope
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animated lighting effects like that of
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course we had to build six of these systems and Ian did the other four and
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he figures this is what he calls the final form so what did you do
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differently on this one right well starting from the front I took a
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extremely neat approach to the bottom part of the cabling see how everything
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snakes around and is barely visible except for this little Rainbow piece
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over here uh the other thing is that I
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actually found where to tuck away all of
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the extra cables there's a cavity up here here so as you can see the backside
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is very clean and finally I managed to stick all of the thicker cables behind
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this protective sheath and even cleaned up the bottom a little bit still not
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perfectly happy with the result but that's the key a clean backside all
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right so uh of course you guys aren't here just
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for that but also performance so we tested these systems a couple of
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different ways first with the RGB lighting mostly disabled the RAM's still
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on but all the fans off so we could get
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a baseline for how much of an improvement we were looking at over our
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previous systems and as you guys can see it is pretty freaking huge whether we're
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talking cine bench whether we're talking Adobe Media encoder going from six to 10
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cores and faster cores with upgraded
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Graphics is a massive
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difference but and that's without RGB
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flare so my system here was actually
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tested a little bit differently we turned on the RGB lighting with some
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animations and overclocked the CPU to 4.2 GHz one of which we're not sure if
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it was the RGB or the overclock allowed
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us to achieve simply mindboggling
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performance it actually feels like this is an upgrade over the three-year-old
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systems in everything from video editing to heavy multitasking to even gaming so
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when it comes to the red footage that we're working on now that we can swap
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everybody's systems out now we're looking at definite real usability
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improvements over the old systems things like timeline scrubbing are going to be
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much faster on these systems than they were on the old ones and I think that
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pretty much wraps it up thank you guys for coming along on this wild and
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hopefully entertaining ride thank you to
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Intel ASUS and Corsair for hooking us up
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with what we think are pretty much the most ba editing workstations on the
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planet and thanks to you guys for watching see you next time oh yeah and
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thanks to Ivan for being here and being productive and that
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